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ERIC Number: EJ421207
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
Critical Thinking via the Abstraction Ladder.
Seabury, Marcia Bundy
English Journal, v80 n2 p44-49 Feb 1991
Discusses strategies (based on S. I. Hayakawa's abstraction ladder) to encourage connected thinking in student writing. Describes a recent cross-disciplinary workshop seeking to improve student essay writing and evaluation. (KEH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Rhetoric, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Semantics, Thinking Skills, Workshops, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Hayakawa (S I)